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It also seems strange that people would be worrying about a highly leveraged speculative frenzy while simultaneously acknowledging that the underlying asset is highly volatile. The irony is that almost monotonically increasing prices of oth
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An oft-missed option that NYC offers is that children can continue testing for the G&T programs up to Grade 3. So parents can enter when the child is 7 years old to enter into grade 3 (when they usually are 8 years old).
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Another inconvenient truth is that there is a great example of an integrated G&T school student body in East Harlem whose racial profile [1] closely matches the racial distribution of applicants for the G&T kindergarden test[2]. T
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Tidelift[1] is one such approach to encourage cashflows in a sustainable manner for open source projects. [1] https://tidelift.com/
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Note that the Oil shell is also bash-compatible [1]. This project (new shell intepreter and shell language) is not lacking in ambition, that's for sure. Not a heavy shell user myself but will be trying oilshell on some sandbox instance
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El Salvador might be ahead of the curve here on learning to deal with (a lack of) control over their monetary policy in this situation because prior to the addition of this second legal tender the country was already fully dollarized[1]. Th
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According to the article women still believe the trade-off to be worth paying for and attending college since their application numbers are still holding steady. Are most of them making a huge mistake? I guess it depends heavily in the cred
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How Many Hours Do Americans Lose to Traffic Congestion?(visualcapitalist.com)
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Foundations for a Country on the Internet(papers.plumia.country)
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A section in the GitHub README tries to answer this question: https://github.com/emilk/egui#why-immediate-mode . I also read an old 2005 blog post & video by Casey Muratori[1] that explains the differences in more d
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AccessKit: Cross-platform UI accessibility infrastructure(github.com)
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>> Notwithstanding skill, because immigration isn't just about low-skilled workers (Canada doesn't prioritize it for instance), high supply of workers is lobbied for on the part of companies in order to suppress wages. Mayb
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Ruby is still very popular, and Crystal's syntax is heavily inspired (i.e. very familiar) by Ruby. This is similar to Julia's approach of making the language syntactically familiar with MATLAB. If a bunch of startups continue to l
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>> The usage of the word “money” in other contexts supports this plain meaning. For example, the Uniform Commercial Code defines money as “a medium of exchange currently authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government. The
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Humour is such an underappreciated method of imparting fragments of insight. Your script sounds like a refreshed tech-focused version of "Yes, Minister"[1]. I really miss that show. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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The book was originally published in 1923 and is available on Project Gutenberg[1] for free. [1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60979/60979-h/60979-h.htm
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After allegedly posting offensive content on FB, principal faces investigation(ny.chalkbeat.org)
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>> Did you really name your company OpenCV? As in.. Open Computer Vision, which you know is an incredibly well-known brand for a 20-year old library, likely fundamental to most the libraries you're now trying to commission for in
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>> Do employees hold firm on these demands or just return to the office grumbling? Many such employees from this vocal minority will be cajoled back by employers allowing 1 WFH day. Perhaps more senior employees will be offered 2 WFH
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It hasn't passed yet. The vote is in five minutes. You're right that the law would come into effect in 90 days, based on El Salvador's president's tweet of the bill translated in English.[1] [1] https://twitte
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>> I think the free world owes Taiwan that degree of protection of their sovereignty. The rest of the free world would likely need to take the first step of officially recognizing Taiwan as a sovereign country[1] before deciding to o
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>> It means people who wouldn't usually have the mobile app can still be a part of the action, and that may eventually drive them to sign up. It's actually almost unbelievable that you can browse endlessly and never once be
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>> Not to mention, there are numerous instances of people getting harassed on the train platform, or inside the train car, and no one steps up to help. They film the incident, but they don't intervene. Does this happen in the Tu
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The aim of the ADA is to give teeth and grounds for legal action to encourage accessibility. One of these methods is damages and penalties. What is more interesting is that AccessiBe is the target of such suits and not the site owners using
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It would be best for the HN community if submitters stick to the HN guidelines and not blatantly editorialize the article headline. I’m bearish on Tether too, but the 76% backing in cash and cash equivalents is a far different picture comp
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>> John Boyd's magnum opus was a slide presentation of several hundred slides, which took several hours to present, which he never allowed to be abridged or summarized in any way. I think you're referring to Patterns of Co
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As a local business owner, at what point would you consider raising the hourly wages? I think it's a tough price-discovery exercise for business owners because you don't necessarily have workers proactively giving you their asking
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>> My biggest concern with this as a general approach—though its also an approach already in use lots of places and one which played a positive factor in out school selection for our son—is that it seems to be a much harder approach c
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>> Expecting a city skyline to never change is ridiculous. The only problem is that so few people use these buildings. The best kind of density regulation requires _more_ density. You're right, yet there are many cities that sti
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I think it's less about the split between W2 FTEs and contractors, and instead that the R&D credits were likey government/state grants for high-tech innovation that helped to offset R&D costs, but Squarespace didn't r

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